Azerbaijan was actively involved in regional economic bodies and infrastructure projects, and was keenly interested in exploring potential interregional cooperation opportunities through the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline (BTC and BTE) between the Caspian and the Mediterranean Seas.
Azerbaiyán está presente en las organizaciones económicas regionales y en las grandes obras de ingeniería regionales.